<TITLE>08. Par 74-89</TITLE>L-74   But remember, there was One who stayed up there with Abraham, another Man, not them two that went down there like a modern evangelists that went down there to preach. Notice, there was One stayed up there. Two went down that way, and One stayed here with Abraham. And the One that stayed with Abraham give him a sign.

L-75 Now watch, his name had been "Abram" and his wife had been "Sarai," just a day or two before that. God had appeared to him and told him, "I'm changing your name now from Abram to Abraham." (See, G-r-a-h-a-m is six letters, man.) But A-b-r-a-h-a-m is seven, seven letters; h-a-m, ending with an h-a-m.

L-76 Now, up here in the Church spiritual, there was One up there to Abraham, and notice what He said. He said, "Abraham," (not "Abram") "Abraham, where is thy wife" (not "S-a-r-r-a") "S-a-r-a-h? Where is thy wife Sarah?"

L-77 Watch what he said, "She's in the tent behind You."

L-78 And He said, "I'll visit you. I'm going to visit you." See that personal pronoun, the One, according to the promise that He had made. That was God! He said, "I'm going to visit you."

L-79 And Sarah, (in a way that we'd all understand) laughed up her sleeve, to herself, she said, "Me, an old woman, hundred years old, my lord" (which was Abraham) "old also, past time of life of that as young folks." Said, "Why, we could not have pleasures like that anymore, I'm old and he's old." And said, "We couldn't have that." And said, "How? These things couldn't be!"

L-80 And the--the Man (God in human flesh) said, "Why did Sarah laugh and doubt, saying these things?" In the tent, behind Him.

L-81   Now watch, if that isn't the same ministry that Jesus Christ had! He looked out upon the audience and perceived their thought. He told Peter who he was and what his father's name was. Told Nathanael.

L-82 Told the woman at the well, when she said... He said, "Go get Me a drink," or "Bring Me a drink."

L-83 She said, "Sir, it's not custom for You to talk to... you Jews talk to Samaritans. We have no dealings with one another."

L-84 He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink. The conversation went on. He said, "Go get your husband and come here."
She said, "I have no husband."
He said, "You've said well, for you've had five."
She said, "Sir!"

L-85   Look at the difference between that and them--and them priests of that day, that council living in the glare of another day. They said, "This is the Devil!" They had to answer their congregation to something, 'cause it required that.

L-86 But what did this poor little woman, that predestinated Seed laying in her heart... She had been sick and tired of that stuff, she had went on the streets as a prostitute. But when she seen That, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You are a Prophet. We haven't had one for four hundred years, and we are told that when the Messiah cometh that's the things that He'll do." Oh, my! That Seed laying there jumped to life! Why? It didn't need no interpreting.

L-87   Jesus said, "I am He that speaks to you." That didn't need no interpreting. He had done the miracle and had testified that He was that Messiah, amen, and bore record exactly what God had promised ("The Lord your God shall raise a Prophet like me," said Moses). What was it? A vindication of the Scripture!

L-88 She run into the city, and said, "Come, see a Man Who told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Christ? Isn't this Him? He told me what I've done."

L-89   Now notice, Jesus, that was Him up there in that Man that had His back turned to the tent and told what Sarah was thinking about inside the tent.


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